The murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas raises again the question of what it means to defend life through killing. When militant antiabortionists began bombing clinics and shooting doctors in the 1980s and 1990s, law enforcement officials looked for some conspiracy among the perpetrators.
Carol Mason
Carol Mason, PhD, is the author of several books that research different aspects of the Right, including Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy, and a forthcoming book, From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary. She lives and teaches in Kentucky.
